Elevation of Pierre-Bénite, Rhône-Alpes, France

Pierre-Bénite, Rhône-Alpes, France is 170 m (558 ft) above sea level.

Pierre-Bénite's height from sea level is 170 metres, or 558 feet. GeoNames reads 166 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 155 m to 232 m.

Ground within 4 km

158 m – 298 m

Mean 203 m across the 8.7 km square centred on the town, 140 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

82nd of 92

among the towns of Rhône-Alpes, and 234th of 999 in France.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the NW, at 200 m, 30 m higher.

Cross-section through Pierre-Bénite

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 24.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pierre-Bénite; the vertical scale is the same on both.

413141WE24.4 km
West to east: from 304 m at 12 km west to 219 m at 12 km east.
413141NS24.4 km
North to south: from 392 m at 12 km north to 248 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 51 km around Pierre-Bénite, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 51 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Pierre-Bénite

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Oullins 2.1 kmNW 200 m (656 ft) +30 m
Saint-Fons 2.3 kmE 173 m (568 ft) +3 m
Saint-Genis-Laval 2.8 kmSW 239 m (784 ft) +69 m
Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon 3.9 kmNW 298 m (978 ft) +128 m
Feyzin 4.3 kmSE 218 m (715 ft) +48 m

Peaks and passes near Pierre-Bénite

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Pierre-Bénite is

Latitude 45.703204, longitude 4.824651. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Pierre-Bénite elevation: 170 m (558 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Pierre-Bénite's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 166 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.